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Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - January 31, 2012
Mission statement: I am consciously connecting to my purpose here at this time. I intend to fulfill my duties as outlined in my pre-incarnation blueprint. My assignments were clearly discussed with me, and I agreed to undertake these tasks in a timely and efficient manner when it was deemed the appropriate time. It is now the appropriate time. You are being called to your positions. You are being signaled to begin your assignments that you have agreed to and that you have trained for, to be of service to humanity at this time. Your talents are special ones, and each of you has your own unique gifts to share with the beings of this world. Many souls incarnate here can benefit from your experience in the upcoming events, and they will come to you seeking guidance and answers to their specific questions. Each soul that comes to you, comes to you not by chance or by accident, but has been directed to you by forces of your reality that many at this time do not fully understand. The details of this process are not of importance at this time, but what is important is that you recognize when a soul is sent to you and understand that you are being required to act in service to this individual. How you handle your assignment from that moment on is up to you, but we ask you to be kind, be patient, and fall back on your knowledge, experience, and intuition when offering guidance.
Many of you have done this work before, and your tasks are not any more difficult at this time. You knew you could successfully accomplish this mission, and we of the higher realms also shared your confidence in yourselves and your abilities. You are not being asked to wait for further developments in your world around you at this time to begin your work. You are being called to begin your assignments now. The tools are at your disposal. Your workload is assuredly to grow in the near days ahead. Events are about to commence, and we wish you to be up and running for ‘business’ before the floodgates open. The dam is about to burst. It is time for you to be a pillar of your society, to strengthen it at its foundation and keep it strong throughout the changes that will be quite profound for many.
Where will these changes begin? News of our presence will soon make ‘primetime’. Many families with no idea as to our existence will be shown our ships and our people through their television sets. This will certainly be quite a shock for many that have never even considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life before. This limited vision may be quite hard to understand for many of you of greater expanded consciousness, but there are many worlds that have been cut off from the truth just as your world has. All civilizations eventually reach a point when it is time for them to understand a greater truth, and we, the Galactic Federation of Light, are very experienced with assisting these worlds facilitate the immense changes associated with such revelation.
Today is humanity’s moment, and we are here in service to again assist a people in the many areas that will be affected by our presence, and we are also here to offer you gifts that will advance your world greatly. Lessening your daily burdens in the name of survival is one of the gifts we offer you, and this will allow so many of you to freely pursue greater wisdom and creative endeavors. With so many more of your great minds free from their daily toils and also free from the limitations of censorship, your world will be free to blossom through the brilliant visions of those of your own race, the human race. We feel so many of you will be quite surprised to learn just how intelligent and visionary so many of your people are, and this includes yourselves as well.
Many of you have never experienced the freedom to pursue your wildest dreams and innovative desires, and we know you will so enjoy this newfound liberty. Your new world will be a world virtually without limit, with no restrictions of information whatsoever. All of your planet's hidden secrets of your past will be revealed to you immediately and completely, leaving no mystery or questions about any subject of any kind. What a wonderful experience this will be for you. You will be like children again, seated among countless books that reveal every secret you have ever wanted to learn, and your library will be an endless labyrinth of book lined shelves for as far as the eyes can see. This is your new world. Prepare for it and expect wonderful things. This is only a small part of what you can expect. Take a close look at your lives today, as you will soon not recognize them from your new existence.
Keep your eyes focused on each task before you. Do not lose your center. Remain balanced for others to steady themselves. Be a pillar for them, as you have for many before. We have described many wonderful things for you to look forward to, and the moment of unveiling is at hand. The changes will be swift, and will continue in rapid succession as we begin the next phase of our campaign. We will not stop or slow as there will be no call for this.
The cabal will be completely obliterated in due time, and will present no problems for us from this moment forward. Many lanes of progress will be newly opened at an almost daily rate, and the changes to your society will take place from many different angles and locations. Some of these changes will take place from the inside, and some from the outside, of your institutions. We have all bases covered. We will leave no stone uncovered as your civilization experiences a complete and thorough overhaul from top to bottom. No one of your world will be ignored and left without. All will share in the new wealth and prosperity of a Galactic society. We will see to that.
You have many friends, some off planet and some from within. You will meet these friends from both of these locations. Humanity has seen many peoples that have migrated throughout many parts of your planet, and each of these migratory families has taken on their own culture and their own personality. These migrations have been well documented by your historians and researchers, yet some of this history has been purposely kept from you in the name of control. Some of these migrations were from one continent to another, and some of these migrations were from your surface world to your inner planetary locations. The details of this piece of your history will come as quite a shock to many of you, even to many of your experts in the fields of geology, geography, history, and science. You will soon be reintroduced to your inner Earth cousins, and we see a very joyful reunion indeed.
As you have been divided for so many eons, you will, of course, have grown somewhat apart in your natures and your cultures, but what remains inside of you all will never change under any circumstances, and it is this that joins you in common bond, as one, forever.
We are the Galactic Federation of Light.
As channeled through Greg Gileshttp://ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com/- English

Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation - January 31, 2012

2 Cib, 9 Yax, 8 Manik

Dratzo! We return! Our alliances with Gaia's secret sacred societies and our Earth allies continue to reap results. The time has arrived for our Earth allies to pressure the major banking cartels with a legal request. This concerns the cartels' practice of hiding the vast amounts of accrued debt that is hidden from the public in undisclosed accounting-books. These huge sums must now be divulged. This action can force the bankruptcy of these unwieldy institutions and bring an end to all present stalemates that have been bogging down the implementation of your new global banking system. The sacred secret societies possess the resources to cover the amounts needed to move your world quickly to a precious-metals financial system. These sacred resources are safely housed in depositories around the planet. The Ascended Masters consider this to be the time when the dark cabal is trumped and a new reality pushes up through the rubble of the old. Indeed, the dark fully understands that its reign is at an end and that it needs to surrender to the Light. We are here only to assist in this divine undertaking.

Our fleet and our personnel are watching the dark floundering around in panic as we approach the actual moment of disclosure of the untold amounts of debt in their possession. The system build by the dark over the centuries has finally come home to roost. The 'secret books in the back room' can no longer be shielded from the glare of the Light of truth, and it is high time to roll them out and confess that the gargantuan amounts are not only true but utterly untenable. This debt is a testament to the insatiable greed of the dark, but happily it can be annulled by the stroke of a pen! Doing this releases your world from the invisible shackles that the dark so ingeniously forged over the last two centuries. The Ascended Masters and their associates have a way to transform the coming catastrophic collapse of the old order into unlimited universal prosperity! A special ruse will shortly be put into effect which will bring about this swift transformation. The dark can no longer ignore the inevitable nor evade what is ready to transpire.

Heaven told the dark ones about this shift in power when she allowed them to create your present reality. The divine purpose was to allow each of you to accrue extraordinary wisdom during your odyssey through the dark realms, which you could then put to use once you returned to full consciousness. The trick was never to let the dark modify your consciousness to the point where you could not be returned to your original fully conscious state. The Anunnaki agreed to abide by Heaven's decrees. Furthermore, Heaven's sacred charges were to be watched over by the Agarthans and Gaia's Ascended Masters. These agreements were kept, initially, and the Anunnaki allowed the Light some leeway. But after the attempted revolution that abruptly ended the first golden age, the Anunnaki changed their minds and disallowed the agents of Light access to their human charges. They now wished to create the slave race that their Atlantean cousins had strived for and this directly contravened the agreements reached after the destruction of Atlantis.

The dark's new plan resulted in the closure of the many entrances to Inner Earth, leaving just a few that would be available only to the fully conscious. This meant that surface humanity was initially cut off from its Light guardians. However, the Light quickly rectified the situation and forged a new relationship, permitting this unconventional setup to continue for a stipulated period of time. The Light also specified that any further transgression against the original agreement would be met with dire consequences for the dark's earthly emissaries. The Agarthans were asked to send special liaisons to the Galactic Federation who would report any actions that were in violation of the agreements. Such actions would have resulted in a swift first contact event, designed to halt the injurious activities of the dark. The fiery end of the second golden age as well as the termination by flood of the third gold age nearly precipitated one such first contact, and the Galactic Federation was put on notice to have a fleet permanently at Heaven's disposal. The die for first contact with your world had been cast.

Namaste! We are Earth's Ascended Masters! We come with news of your march to freedom. Your world is presently overrun by brigands and looters who use their positions of influence and power to accumulate ever more wealth. This sorry charade has gone on for centuries! However, we too have been able, despite the dark's ever-watchful eye, to squirrel away our own mountains of gold. God bless their dark souls! Even those who are seemingly untouched by any vestige of morality can be softened. We are to be the sacred instrument that can teach them, and also humanity, important lessons for their soul growth. The time comes to end this rampant chicanery and return you all to sanity and high consciousness. In this transformed realm, you can at last reunite with your spiritual and space families and return in joy to full consciousness.

Presently, we have succeeded in setting up the structure for the new economic system. Further, we have taken on the great international kleptocracy and left them in fear and dread of our next moves! We have brought together many in nations across your world and have prepared them to take on the massive task of restoring normalcy to the tattered governments of the globe. What is to follow is an unprecedented revolution of enormous proportions. The moral, the kind, and the just of this world have been trampled on for far too long, and it is time that proper justice weigh in upon the unjust and the amoral, and that those who have used you to gain self-serving advantages receive the proper consequences of their miscreant acts. We fully intend to bring these lawbreakers down and realign any deviations from your sacred path to full consciousness.

Since time immemorial it must seem to you that you have listened in dismay as promises were endlessly made and not kept. We just wish to state that what is decreed by Heaven is now ready to manifest. We are together in declaring that an air of justice has blown up and formed into a mighty hurricane that is aimed at unseating those who have exploited you and lied to you to gain global control. This vast structure of dark power will quite shortly end. A series of actions are in their latter stages and will deliver to you all that we have explained to you. Be prepared for great truths and unending prosperity, to be preceded by a series of official announcements that may be shocking to many of you. The truth is never easy to hear when lies have become the accepted norm. So be ready to be a bit startled but also to feel the blissful relief of freedom!

Today, we carried on with our messages to you. We ask that you use your magnificent energies to focus on what we have just talked about. Help us to manifest those energies that can finally deliver you from the shackles of the dark so that we can come together to celebrate the victory that Heaven has decreed! Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours! So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)

California to run out of Cash in a month-- Hmmm, that's about the first of March, Right?? Hmmmm

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Tuesday, 31-Jan-2012 17:56:07

If anyone is tired of the daily European soap opera with surrealistic tragicomic overtones, they can simply shift their gaze to the 8th largest economy in the world: the insolvent state of California, whose controller just told legislators has just over a month worth of cash left. From the Sacramento Bee: "California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion through payment delays and borrowing, according to a letter state Controller John Chiang sent to state lawmakers today. The announcement is surprising since lawmakers previously believed the state had enough cash to last through the fiscal year that ends in June." ....uh, oops? But sure, fix the problem of excess debt by more "borrowing" why not. As for the math: "But Chiang said additional cash management solutions are needed because state tax revenues are $2.6 billion less than what Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers assumed in their optimistic budget last year. Meanwhile, Chiang said, the state is spending $2.6 billion more than state leaders planned on." Quick, someone come up with a plan that involves subsidies and tariffs on China, or something else that deflects from what the source of the problem really is. Because the last thing that anyone in America would want to bring up is this thing called "responsibility" for their actions, or, as in now becoming the default case, the lack thereof. And why do that, when time spent so much more productively scapegoating this, and blaming that for one's own massive errors of judgment.
From the Bee:
The Assembly budget committee is considering a bill today that would enable $865 million of borrowing from existing state accounts, Senate Bill 95. Chiang, after consultation with the Department of Finance and state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, is also seeking about $2.4 billion in delayed payments to universities, counties and Medi-Cal, as well as additional borrowing from outside investors.
Absent these actions, the state would fall below its prudent $2.5 billion cash cushion on Feb. 29, Chiang estimated. On March 8, the state would actually end up $730 million in the red. The state would be below the safe cash cushion for several weeks ending April 13, save for several days at the end of March.
With such actions, Chiang believes the state would not have to use IOUs or delay tax refunds, maneuvers that have been relied upon in previous years. But Chiang also said that "more cash solutions may be required if our revenues continue to erode or if disbursements significantly exceed estimates."
So 3 years after Lehman filed for bankruptcy, everyone in the world continues to be terminally insolvent, but because everyone is in the same boat, everyone pretends not to notice and the best thing is just to blame Meredith Whitney for telling it like it is, if not getting the timing quite right? But at least the Fed isn't about to print up a tsunami of dollar-equivalent ones and zeros.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/california-run-out-cash-one-month-controller-warns

(Thanks, B. :)
Reader B. sends us:
=====1-31-2012 Guru Freeway BillThis baby could literally drop at any moment...Agreements have been made and we are on an "hour by hour" watch.

1-31-2012 Guru Cap1cash in should be starting on wednesday...some believe we need to hurry to cash in because the rate is going to drop, some say it will be 30 days. the rate will be in the $8 range.

1-31-2012Guru Frank26We need to raise the value because inflation is getting out of control. Inflation is likely touching 10% and maybe even 11% now. Syria and Iran causing issues? Think on these things. the budget is really done and is awaiting the GOI and CBI to release it anytime now.we will see the rate before they see Ch. 7.
Read more: http://www.dinarguru.com/#ixzz1l3ts9upa

There are, as many of you know, ongoing "haircuts" for debtors in the Euro markets. Say you've loaned Greece money by buying a bond. You expect to get a certain amount back (more than you put in, obviously). But with the recent Eurodoom, debtohlders have to take "haircuts" -- 30% for example.

Now, when this happens, a certain type of insurance is supposed to kick in for some investors. A CDS (type of derivative) is one example. Say you are a US investor ten years ago, and you wanted to invest in Greek bonds but you are worried (understandably - look what happened) about the risk. You might buy a CDS, which is similar to an insurance contract. It says you will be paid such-and-such amount if Greece defaults.

It's not a bad idea in theory, but what happened is the elite financial world started to gamble on CDS even for instruments they don't own. It would be like if I took out insurance that would pay me huge amounts if you have an auto accident. Then I get you drunk and convince you to drive.

Since there is nowhere near enough money to make good on all thes promises (for both rational investors and wall street megabanks that have glommed on to this stuff like crack), bondholders are not going to be compensated for their losses (money they expected and may even have booked in accounts), and the mega banks aren't going to get what they expect either, so they have much, much, MUCH less money than they expect.

Subject: WHISTLEBLOWER: MONSANTO WANTS TO KILL THE BEES TO MAKE WAY FOR ITS SUPER-BEE

This will help to de-populate the world !!!!

Jan. 28, 2012

Soon to be whistle blower who worked for Monsanto will be releasing documents detailing how Monsanto planned to kill off bee colonies in order to introduce a “new and improved” species of bee that will only pollinate Monsanto crops

And if you think Monsanto isn’t dominating our government? Read some cables released bywikileaks all about our officials asking for talking points from them, our ambassadords urging trade wars on their behalf:

The Word of The Lord for February 2012 & Beyond
“Daniel 2:21-22 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he give wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He reveal the deep and secret things: he know what is in the darkness, and the light dwell with him.”

“Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

“This is a time where you will see the ranking order of nations/kingdoms shift. For the thrones of the enemy will come into full view this year. My glorious kingdom shall be fortified and further established by my sons that are being birthed forth as partakers of the promise that I am assembling from my heavenly throne. You will begin to see an aligning of those who I have called and prepared to rise up. It is time to declare your position and make known your rightful place says the Lord. I will give you the power of my authority to rule, to reign, to decree and declare as you progress throughout this year. In this time and even this month will mark several serious events that will come to pass because of my righteous judgments. The consequences of men have gone too far due to the sin of greed, pride and deceit.”

“I am removing kings and setting up kings and now you will see the overturning and drastic changes of governments, economic systems and those who are in places of authority, there will be a transition and shift, and there will be those who will show their hands (and their hidden plans) as others exert their authority in the land. Within these systems there will be new revisions that have been put in place to help mend the old plans but they will not remedy their offer to help the current systems that are in need. The foundation built by greed and mammon are about to give way. At the same time there are evil plans that are being set in place and are ready to be implemented to attempt to add to the confusion and fear upon the land and the people. These external forces are demonic systems that will operate through natural enemies to try to bring forth destruction, chaos and fear. So several things will be in operation at the same time, because you are now on an accelerated course and you must take action so that my plan and purposes are fully carried out.”

“Time is of the essence, be diligent in prayer and be vigilant. Watch for the signs that are before you. But also know that I will rebuild my people and I will complete the manifestation of my light and glory in order to restore that which the enemy is trying to destroy. I declare this now in the heavenlies before you; My heavenly government will arise in great might by my own hand, and all the plans that the enemy has set forth at this time for the destruction of my people will not SUCCEED. The time of advancing the work of the kingdom is now. For I will open up the two leaved gates and they shall not be shut, and I will set in place key things to strengthen your position for your provision. But you must carefully follow my instructions because there is great resistance to that which I am bringing forth. Don’t allow anything to frustrate you and distract you, nor to deter and hinder what is being supplied.”

“It is important for you to focus upon building the most essential things and set them in order because you will have to initiate major plans in a short window of time. Know I have prepared all things and know that this is the hour that my people shall come forth with my wisdom to do my bidding upon the earth, in order to be prepared for the trouble that will occur. Listen carefully, It is important to hear clearly in order to know what to initiate and what to wait on because now everything has an order and everything has a set a time, and all must be completed in the right sequence to achieve the right results. In order to know these things you must stay in my presence. Watching and obeying is very significant right now.”

“For the winds of change are blowing; and as the hands of the righteous have risen up—so shall the hands of those who render evil will be revealed. So you must not take anything for granted because much will be happening right now. In this hour you will make great strides toward good. Major victories will be won in the uncovering, but there will be also major challenges and minor setbacks. See things clearly for what they are, don’t allow your fears to over think your position. Watch and pray. Keep advancing and moving forward.”

“Mighty doors will be open to you and great availability will be present before you and none shall hinder them. I will rain down righteousness upon those who have not denied my name and have aligned their lives according to my will and purposes. Remember that your greatest weapons of battle and protection are within you. Your faith, Prayer, praise, the declaration of my word, and the exercising of your inheritance in me are powerful tools that I have given you, according to my covenant. You are sons, my redeemed and that which I have set forth will arise out of you with great power and glory.”

“You must recognize that even as there is a foreboding feeling of uncertainty and trouble, know that I am also moving forth to guide you, and instruct you. This is important for you now so that you will be able to handle the challenges of the day. I am protecting, preserving and even moving swiftly to help you counter the enemies’ plans. Your ability to accomplish every task has everything to do with that which has been given to you. These are being realized through the very love that is flowing from the heart of your Father, says the Lord.”

For those who feel stuck:
“It is time to move on, move beyond the old places and experiences that you might have thought were significant. Places of hurt, lack, and not knowing what to do or where to go from here. But I say to you, your future is before you and what you move forth to establish far outweighs what you feel you have endured in the past. In fact these were stepping stones to cross over into a new hour, and a new plan in me. So don’t allow the troubles of the pass to hinder or stifle you---don’t look back continue to advance for the time of advancement has come. Look for me in the glory that shall come down in the midst of regions that are crying out before me. Look for me in the victory that didn’t seemingly look like it could happen, yet suddenly it came to pass. Look for me in great breakthroughs which will take place even in this month –you will see. Know I will be in the midst of you working out situations miraculously.”

Prophetic Insights:
Much will be taking place in this month. It is one of the most significant months this year. The Lord began to speak to me about “thrones,” the evil ranks of the enemy that are in position. He also spoke concerning those whom He has positioned to overcome the works of the enemy. These clashes that are in conflict will affect the shifts in government that we will see.

The Lord spoke to me about watching North Korea and that right now even though it may not seem apparent plans are already being set in place for major upheaval to come---Russia as well is planning. (these things were revealed to me during night watch prayers). The Lord spoke of several confrontations:

“Nations will clash during this time. Some with power and influence will flex their strength to threatened and even to push/and intimidate with great sounds of authority. But there are those who are quietly planning who are the most dangerous in their rendering-–these silent enemies are like lions watching and waiting looking for a time to strike. Keep your eyes open and your spirit alert, for there are those who are preparing to move not with sound, but strike in dark silence.”

Watchmen stand on your post. Keep your hour of watch----The Lord will meet us there and release to us strategies, battle plans, and show us areas of trouble ahead.

There are a series of sounds going on right now. The Lord spoke to me:

“There is a sound that is coming from the earth. There is a sound in the atmosphere and there is a rumbling in the cities. One is the sound of travail upon the earth, and the other is a sound from those who are before me in intercession and prayer. Hear the sounds that are coming forth in this season and know also there shall be a sound of my judgment. For that which must come forth at this time will come forth. For this is the season of My release of glory and light to shine upon the dark places in the earth.”

“The birthing process is now beginning and is being established. This is the time of my coming, and my appointing. Know that I am preparing you. In this month you shall see and shall hear the Rising up of my sons and daughters to awaken and come forth into the light of my glory. You shall signs in the heavens and upon the earth. These are all signs and signals leading to the turning of the events that will mold and shape the things that about to come forth, says the Lord.”

Watch the last ten days concerning serious financial woes. (see Word of the Lord 2012).

A prophetic word of exhortation from the Father to His Church: Clean the Wells of Your Inheritance

“How many people throughout history do you think were unable to fully walk out their destinies in Me?

“People, both now and in the past, have been kept locked up by religion and religious activities; they have been bound by culture, and handcuffed by political systems. Deep in their hearts they know there was something more. These world systems, particularly religious ones, have come in and made promises to fulfill. However, they are the actual jailer to My people with the goal of turning them into slaves to their system. Even the best plans of man cannot outmatch Mine.

“Beloved, I am concerned for My Church – not for My sake, but for hers. She has gotten so caught up in “causes” that she has forgotten “My cause”! She has failed to see how My own Son dealt with the world’s systems or listen to what Jesus said in regard to His Coming.

“I showed Jesus and He followed My every directive. He went about doing His Father’s business and His life was My example to mankind. Jesus made His mandate clear in Matthew 28:18-20. This Scripture states that My beloved Church is to “Go make disciples.” Disciples are people who will follow Jesus’ example and obey His commands. They are both doers of the Word who have heard and do what Jesus said. These are the ones who have built their lives on The Rock and not the sand. I did not leave My Church without instruction! Yet most who are in My Church, which is not a building but the people who make up the Body of Christ, is building on sand. They hear the Words of Jesus but they do not do them. They are making disciples for themselves and their denominations. They are making followers of man; they are making men their security and means of prosperity for themselves – without regard for the eternal consequences! Leaders in My Church have used My Word – MY WORD! – to cause people to become enslaved to their whims.

“It is time for the Wells of your Inheritance, the stopped up wells, to be cleaned out. How much inheritance do you think you have waiting for you when My word states that I show love to a thousand generations to those who love Me and keep My commandments? Many that loved Me throughout time were kept from My completed purpose being fulfilled in their lives, so My storehouse is full of Promises waiting to be claimed! Their unfulfilled destinies are part of your inheritance, Child! There is more! Those who walked in My fullness have mantles waiting to be claimed like Elisha did with Elijah. You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who are cheering you on – awaiting their reward. It is My desire for fresh, clean, Living Water to flow from your belly – from the belly of My Church. I want My glorious Church to rise up out of the ashes of self-inflicted wounds and wounds caused by others who have sought to stop up the Well of My presence. I have so much awaiting My Church and it is My desire for Her to come out of Her politically minded, man-made, self-promoting mindset and come to Me.”

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30

“When My beloved Church does what is written here in Matthew, all these things troubling her will be shown for what they are – straw readied for the fire. As My people, those who have taken My name, humble themselves in fasting and seek My face in prayers of repentance, My lovingkindness will touch every hurting part and bring healing to your land. Come to Me and together let us clean the Wells of your Inheritance.”

Beloved, we are not to quarrel and create strife, but to be gentle and able to patiently teach. (See 2 Timothy 2:22-26). The Church has gotten so focused on being “right” that we as a whole have failed to notice those souls watching from the sidelines. They are becoming more confused by observing our un-Christ-like attitudes than anything else; instead of being led to Christ, they are being led away from Him. How do you think Jesus would react to such things? What did His Father show Him? When Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees, whose goal was to accuse Him, He did not argue with them. He made His point and then moved on. Did God send in a gunman to kill Herod or Pharaoh to stop them from killing the innocent babies who happened to be born at the time of Jesus and Moses? No! Did He rally the people to protest against the oppressive Roman government? No! God’s purposes are not stopped by such things, but flourish in spite of such gross darkness. If our Father can do bring forth His will through such great wickedness, and even greater evil meant by nailing Jesus to the Cross, He can certainly do it in our circumstances today. (See John 10:10).

O glory to His name!!! Break off the shackles and handcuffs! Take off the grave clothes! Church – it is time to “clean out the Wells” and let the Lord fill us with His Living Water so that we can reach those who are thirsty and have never tasted the Living Water! AMEN.

As I was waiting in line behind an older gentleman atWendy'srecently, I heard him ask for his senior discount. The girl at the register apologized and charged him less. When I asked the man what the discount was, he told me that seniors over 55 gets 10% off everything on the menu,every day.

Being the age I am, I figured I might as well ask for the discount too. As I waited for my turn, I thought about the consequences of doing so. If the employee asked me for I.D., it could be embarrassing having to show my license. But if she didn't ask for proof, I would get depressed that I really did look "old" and that I didn't need to prove it. Since I always like to save money, I boldly asked for the discount, and sadly she just rang up the discount (even though I’m convinced I don’t look my age (Haha).

Anyway, this incident prompted me to do some research, and I came across a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offers giving various discounts with different age requirements. I was actually surprised to see how many there are and how some of them start at the young age of 50.

This list may not only be useful for you, but also for your friends and family.

Hmmmm,Dunkin Donuts gives free coffee to people over 55. If you're paying for a cup every day, you might want to start getting it for free.

Retail And Apparel
Banana Republic: 10% off (50+)
Bealls: 20% off first Tuesday of each month (50+)
Belk’s: 15% off first Tuesday of every month (55+)
Big Lots: 10% off
Bon-Ton Department Stores: 15% off on senior discount days (55+)
C.J. Banks: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
Clarks: 10% off (62+)
Dress Barn: 10% off (55+)
Goodwill: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Hallmark: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
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VKD: This is an article which is written in a fashion by an attorney, understandable by any one who takes the time to read.]
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Web of Financial Fraud and Criminality : America's Shadow Banking System
By Ellen Brown
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28878
Global Research, January 26, 2012
Web of Debt
The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-signing” scandal. The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, under titles they did not really have, attesting to the veracity of documents they had not really reviewed. Investigation reveals that it did not just happen occasionally but was an industry-wide practice, dating back to the late 1990s; and that it may have clouded the titles of millions of homes. If the settlement is agreed to, it will let Wall Street bankers off the hook for crimes that would land the rest of us in jail – fraud, forgery, securities violations and tax evasion.
To the President’s credit, however, he seems to have shifted his position on the settlement in response to protests before his State of the Union address. In his speech on January 24th, President Obama did not mention the settlement but announced instead that he would be creating a mortgage crisis unit to investigate wrongdoing related to real estate lending. “This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans,” he said.
The Deeper Question Is Why
Whether massive robo-signing occurred is no longer in issue. The question that needs to be investigated is why it was being done. The alleged justification—that the bankers were so busy that they cut corners—hardly seems credible given the extent of the practice.
The robo-signing largely involved assignments of mortgage notes to mortgage servicers or trusts representing the investors who put up the loan money. Assignment was necessary to give the trusts legal title to the loans. But assignment was delayed until it was necessary to foreclose on the homes, when it had to be done through the forgery and fraud of robo-signing. Why had it been delayed? Why did the banks not assign the mortgages to the trusts when and as required by law?
Here is a working hypothesis, suggested by Martin Andelman: securitized mortgages are the “pawns” used in the pawn shop known as the “repo market.” “Repos” are overnight sales and repurchases of collateral. Yale economist Gary Gorton explains that repos are the “deposit insurance” for the shadow banking system, which is now larger than the conventional banking system and is necessary for the conventional system to operate. The problem is that repos require “sales,” which means the mortgage notes have to remain free to be bought and sold. The mortgages are left unendorsed so they can be used in this repo market.
The Evolution of the Shadow Banking System
Gorton observes that there is a massive and growing demand for banking by large institutional investors – pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds – which have millions of dollars to park somewhere between investments. But FDIC insurance covers only up to $250,000. FDIC insurance was resisted in the 1930s by bankers and government officials and was pushed through as a populist movement: the people demanded it. What they got was enough insurance to cover the deposits of individuals and no more. Today, the large institutional investors want similar coverage. They want an investment that is secure, that provides them with a little interest, and that is liquid like a traditional deposit account, allowing quick withdrawal.
The shadow banking system evolved in response to this need, operating largely through the repo market. “Repos” are sales and repurchases of highly liquid collateral, typically Treasury debt or mortgage-backed securities—the securitized units into which American real estate has been ground up and packaged, sausage-fashion. The collateral is bought by a “special purpose vehicle” (SPV), which acts as the shadow bank. The investors put their money in the SPV and keep the securities, which substitute for FDIC insurance in a traditional bank. (If the SPV fails to pay up, the investors can foreclose on the securities.) To satisfy the demand for liquidity, the repos are one-day or short-term deals, continually rolled over until the money is withdrawn. This money is used by the banks for other lending, investing or speculating. Gorton writes:
This banking system (the “shadow” or “parallel” banking system)—repo based on securitization—is a genuine banking system, as large as the traditional, regulated banking system. It is of critical importance to the economy because it is the funding basis for the traditional banking system. Without it, traditional banks will not lend and credit, which is essential for job creation, will not be created.
All Behind the Curtain of MERS
The housing shell game was made possible because it was all concealed behind an electronic smokescreen called MERS (an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.). MERS allowed houses to be shuffled around among multiple, rapidly changing owners while circumventing local recording laws. Title would be recorded in the name of MERS as a place holder for the investors, and MERS would foreclose on behalf of the investors. Payments would be received by the mortgage servicer, which was typically the bank that signed the mortgage with the homeowner. The homeowner usually thinks the servicer is the lender, but in fact it is an amorphous group of investors.
This all worked until courts started questioning whether MERS, which admitted that it was a mere conduit without title, had standing to foreclose. Courts have increasingly held that it does not.
Making matters worse for the servicing banks, Fannie Mae sent out a memo telling servicers that in order to be reimbursed under HAMP—a government loan modification program designed to help at-risk homeowners meet their mortgage payments—the servicers would have to produce the paperwork showing the loan had been assigned to the trust.
The hasty solution was a rash of assignments signed by an army of “robosigners,” to be filed in the public records. But the documents are patent forgeries, making a shambles of county title records.
Complicating all this are tax issues. Since 1986, mortgage-backed securities have been issued to investors through SPVs called REMICs (Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits). REMICs are designed as tax shelters; but to qualify for that status, they must be “static.” Mortgages can’t be transferred in and out once the closing date has occurred. The REMIC Pooling and Servicing Agreement typically states that any transfer significantly after the closing date is invalid. Yet the newly robo-signed documents, which are required to begin foreclosure proceedings, are almost always executed long after the trust’s closing date. The whole business is quite complicated, but the bottom line is that title has been clouded not only by MERS but because the trusts purporting to foreclose do not own the properties by the terms of their own documents.
John O’Brien, Register of Deeds for the Southern Essex District of Massachusetts, calls it a “criminal enterprise.” On January 18th, hecalled for a full scale criminal investigation, including a grand jury to look into the evidence. He sent to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz over 30,000 documents recorded in the Salem Registry that he says are fraudulent.
From Lending Machines to Borrowing Machines
The bankers have engaged in what amounts to a massive fraud, not necessarily because they started out with criminal intent, but because they have been required to in order to come up with the collateral (in this case real estate) to back their loans. It is the way our system is set up: the banks are not really creating credit and advancing it to us, counting on our future productivity to pay it off, the way they once did under the deceptive but functional façade of fractional reserve lending. Instead, they are vacuuming up our money and lending it back to us at higher rates.
“Instead of lending into the economy,” says British money reformer Ann Pettifor, “bankers are borrowing from the real economy.” Shewrote in the Huffington Post in October 2010:
[T]he crazy facts are these: bankers now borrow from their customers and from taxpayers. They are effectively draining funds from household bank accounts, small businesses, corporations, government Treasuries and from e.g. the Federal Reserve. They do so by charging high rates of interest and fees; by demanding early repayment of loans; by illegally foreclosing on homeowners, and by appropriating, and then speculating with trillions of dollars of taxpayer-backed resources.
Not only has the system destroyed county title records, but it is highly vulnerable to bank runs and systemic collapse. In the shadow banking system, as in the old fractional reserve banking system, the collateral is being double-counted: it is owed to the borrowers and the depositors at the same time. This allows for expansion of the money supply, but bank runs can occur when the borrowers and the depositors demand their money at the same time. And unlike the conventional banking system, the shadow banking system is largely unregulated. It doesn’t have the backup of FDIC insurance to prevent bank runs.
That is what happened in September 2008 following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a major investment bank. Gary Gorton explains that it was a run on the shadow banking system that caused the credit collapse that followed. Investors rushed to pull their money out overnight. LIBOR—the London interbank lending rate for short-term loans—shot up to around 5%. Since the cost of borrowing the money to cover loans was too high for banks to turn a profit, lending abruptly came to a halt.
Fixing the System
The question is how to eliminate this systemic risk. As noted by The Business Insider:
Regulate shadow banking more tightly, and you probably have to also provide government backstops. Shudder. Try to shut the thing down or restrict it and you suck credit out of the system, credit which much of the non-financial “'real” economy uses and needs.
Interestingly, countries with strong public sector banking systems largely escaped the 2008 credit crisis. These include the BRIC countries—Brazil Russia, India, and China—which contain 40% of the global population and are today’s fastest growing economies. They escaped because their public sector banks do not need to rely on repos and securitizations to back their loans. The banks are owned and operated by the ultimate guarantor—the government itself. The public sector banking model deserves further study.
Whatever the solution, a system that requires the slicing and dicing of mortgages behind an electronic smokescreen so they can be bought and sold as collateral for the pawn shop of the repo market is obviously fraught with perils and is unsustainable. Please contact your state attorney general and urge him or her not to go through with the robo-signing settlement, which will be granting immunity for crimes that are not yet fully known. Phone numbers are here. The surface of this great shadowy second banking system has barely been scratched. It needs a very thorough investigation.
Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute,http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites arehttp://WebofDebt.com and http://EllenBrown.com.

Bombshell: Barack Obama Outed As CIA Creation
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Wayne Madsen
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. The first part of his report highlights the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-sponsored operations in Kenya to counter rising Soviet and Chinese influence among student circles and, beyond, to create conditions obstructing the emergence of independent African leaders.
From 1983-84, Barack Obama worked as Editor at Business Internation Corporation, a Business International Corporation, a known CIA front company.
President Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world’s most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s stepfather, at the East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.
Barack Obama, Sr., who met Dunham in 1959 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii, had been part of what was described as an airlift of 280 East African students to the United States to attend various colleges — merely “aided” by a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation, according to a September 12, 1960, Reuters report from London. The airlift was a CIA operation to train and indoctrinate future agents of influence in Africa, which was becoming a battleground between the United States and the Soviet Union and China for influence among newly-independent and soon-to-be independent countries on the continent.
The airlift was condemned by the deputy leader of the opposition Kenyan African Democratic Union (KADU) as favoring certain tribes — the majority Kikuyus and minority Luos — over other tribes to favor the Kenyan African National Union (KANU), whose leader was Tom Mboya, the Kenyan nationalist and labor leader who selected Obama, Sr. for a scholarship at the University of Hawaii. Obama, Sr., who was already married with an infant son and pregnant wife in Kenya, married Dunham on Maui on February 2, 1961 and was also the university’s first African student. Dunham was three month’s pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr. at the time of her marriage to Obama, Sr.
The CIA allegedly recruited Tom M’Boya in a heavily funded “selective liberation” programme to isolate Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta, who the American spy agency labelled as “unsafe.
KADU deputy leader Masinda Muliro, according to Reuters, said KADU would send a delegation to the United States to investigate Kenyan students who received “gifts” from the Americans and “ensure that further gifts to Kenyan students are administered by people genuinely interested in Kenya’s development.’”
Mboya received a $100,000 grant for the airlift from the Kennedy Foundation after he turned down the same offer from the U.S. State Department, obviously concerned that direct U.S. assistance would look suspicious to pro-Communist Kenyan politicians who suspected Mboya of having CIA ties. The Airlift Africa project was underwritten by the Kennedy Foundation and the African-American Students Foundation. Obama, Sr. was not on the first airlift but a subsequent one. The airlift, organized by Mboya in 1959, included students from Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.
Reuters also reported that Muliro charged that Africans were “disturbed and embittered” by the airlift of the selected students. Muliro “stated that “preferences were shown to two major tribes [Kikuyu and Luo] and many U.S.-bound students had failed preliminary and common entrance examinations, while some of those left behind held first-class certificates.”
Obama, Sr. was a friend of Mboya and a fellow Luo. After Mboya was assassinated in 1969, Obama, Sr. testified at the trial of his alleged assassin. Obama, Sr. claimed he was the target of a hit-and-run assassination attempt after his testimony.
CIA-airlifted to Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr., with leis, stands with Stanley Dunham, President Obama’s grandfather, on his right.
Obama, Sr., who left Hawaii for Harvard in 1962, divorced Dunham in 1964. Obama, Sr. married a fellow Harvard student, Ruth Niedesand, a Jewish-American woman, who moved with him to Kenya and had two sons. They were later divorced. Obama, Sr. worked for the Kenyan Finance and Transport ministries as well as an oil firm. Obama, Sr. died in a 1982 car crash and his funeral was attended by leading Kenyan politicians, including future Foreign Minister Robert Ouko, who was murdered in 1990.
CIA files indicate that Mboya was an important agent-of-influence for the CIA, not only in Kenya but in all of Africa. A formerly Secret CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, dated November 19, 1959, states that Mboya served as a check on extremists at the second All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Tunis. The report states that “serious friction developed between Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya who cooperated effectivelylast December to check extremists at the AAPC’s first meeting in Accra.” The term “cooperated effectively” appears to indicate that Mboya was cooperating with the CIA, which filed the report from field operatives in Accra and Tunis. While “cooperating” with the CIA in Accra and Tunis, Mboya selected the father of the president of the United States to receive a scholarship and be airlifted to the University of Hawaii where he met and married President Obama’s mother.
An earlier CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, secret, and dated April 3, 1958, states that Mboya “still appears to be the most promising of the African leaders.” Another CIA weekly summary, secret and dated December 18, 1958, calls Mboya the Kenyan nationalist an “able and dynamic young chairman” of the People’s Convention party who was viewed as an opponent of “extremists” like Nkrumah, supported by “Sino-Soviet representatives.”
In a formerly Secret CIA report on the All-Africa Peoples Conference in 1961, dated November 1, 1961, Mboya’s conservatism, along with that of Taleb Slim of Tunisia, are contrasted to the leftist policies of Nkrumah and others. Pro-communists who were elected to the AAPC’s steering committee at the March 1961 Cairo conference, attended by Mboya, are identified in the report as Abdoulaye Diallo, AAPC Secretary General, of Senegal; Ahmed Bourmendjel of Algeria; Mario de Andrade of Angola; Ntau Mokhele of Basutoland; Kingue Abel of Cameroun; Antoine Kiwewa of Congo (Leopoldville); Kojo Botsio of Ghana; Ismail Toure of Guinea; T. O. Dosomu Johnson of Liberia; Modibo Diallo of Mali; Mahjoub Ben Seddik of Morocco; Djibo Bakari of Niger; Tunji Otegbeya of Nigeria; Kanyama Chiume of Nyasaland; Ali Abdullahi of Somalia; Tennyson Makiwane of South Africa, and Mohamed Fouad Galal of the United Arab Republic.
The only attendees in Cairo who were given a clean bill of health by the CIA were Mboya, who appears to have been a snitch for the agency, and Joshua Nkomo of Southern Rhodesia, B. Munanka of Tanganyika, Abdel Magid Shaker of Tunisia, and John Kakonge of Uganda.
Nkrumah would eventually be overthrown in a 1966 CIA-backed coup while he was on a state visit to China and North Vietnam. The CIA overthrow of Nkrumah followed by one year the agency’s overthrow of Sukarno, another coup that was connected to President Obama’s family on his mother’s side. There are suspicions that Mboya was assassinated in 1969 by Chinese agents working with anti-Mboya factions in the government of Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta in order to eliminate a pro-U.S. leading political leader in Africa. Upon Mboya’s death, every embassy in Nairobi flew its flag at half-mast except for one, the embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya.
Mboya’s influence in the Kenyatta government would continue long after his death and while Obama, Sr. was still alive. In 1975, after the assassination of KANU politician Josiah Kariuki, a socialist who helped start KANU, along with Mboya and Obama, Sr., Kenyatta dismissed three rebellious cabinet ministers who “all had personal ties to either Kariuki or Tom Mboya.” This information is contained in CIA Staff Notes on the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, formerly Top Secret Umbra, Handle via COMINT Channels, dated June 24, 1975. The intelligence in the report, based on its classification, indicate the information was derived from National Security Agency intercepts in Kenya. No one was ever charged in the assassination of Kariuki.
The intecepts of Mboya’s and Kariuki’s associates are an indication that the NSA and CIA also maintain intercepts on Barack Obama, Sr., who, as a non-U.S. person, would have been lawfully subject at the time to intercepts carried out by NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
(Continued below)
Special Report. The Story of Obama: All in The Company – Part II
In Part I of this WMR special report, we revealed the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide college degrees to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and southern African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and China. Barack Obama Sr. was the first African student to attend the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. and Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham met in a Russian language class in 1959 and they married in 1961.
The African airlift program was administered by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya, a fellow Luo tribe mentor and friend of the senior Obama. According to CIA documents described in Part I, Mboya also served the CIA in ensuring that pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese African nationalists were stymied in their attempt to dominate pan-African nationalist political, student, and labor movements.
One of Mboya’s chief opponents was Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who was ousted in a CIA-inspired coup in 1966, one year before to Obama Sr’s son, Barack Obama, Jr. and his mother joined Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian who Obama’s mother met at the University of Hawaii in 1965, when President Obama was four years old.
In 1967, Obama and his mother joined her husband in Jakarta. In 1965, Lolo Soetoro had been called back from Hawaii by General Suharto to serve as an officer in the Indonesian military to help launch a bloody CIA-backed genocide of Indonesian Communists and Indonesian Chinese throughout the expansive country. Suharto consolidated his power in 1966, the same year that Barack Obama, Sr.’s friend, Mboya, had helped to rally pro-U.S. pan-African support for the CIA’s overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966.
East-West Center, University of Hawaii, and CIA coup against Sukarno
Ann Dunham met Soetoro at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. The center had long been affiliated with CIA activities in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1965, the year that Dunham met and married Soetoro, the center saw a new chancellor take over. He was Howard P. Jones who served a record seven years, from 1958 to 1965, as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia. Jones was present in Jakarta as Suharto and his CIA-backed military officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who was seen, along with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as allies of China.
When Jones was chancellor of the East-West Center, he wrote an article for the Washington Post, dated October 10, 1965, in which he defended Suharto’s overthrow of Sukarno. Jones was “invited” by the Post to comment on the Suharto coup, described as a “counter-coup” against the Communists. Jones charged that Suharto was merely responding to an earlier attempted Communist-led coup against Sukarno launched by Lt. Col. Untung, “a relatively unknown battalion commander in the palace guard.”
Jones’s article, which mirrored CIA situation reports from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, continued by stating that the alleged leftist coup on September 30 ”came within an inch of succeeding through the assassination of six of the top military command. It might well have succeeded had not Defense Minister Nasution and a number of other senior generals also maked for assassination acted fast in a dramatic counter-coup.” Of course, what Jones did not inform the Post’s readers was that the Suharto “counter-coup” had been assisted with the strong help of the CIA.
Sukarno never blamed the Communists for the assassination of the army generals nor did the Indonesian Cabinet, where the second= and third-ranking leaders of the PKI were present. The possibility that the assassination of the generals was a CIA/Suharto “false flag” operation to affix blame on the PKI cannot be ruled out. Two days after Suharto’s coup, a CIA “rent-a-mob” burned down the PKI headquarters in Jakarta. As they marched past the U.S. Embassy, which was also the site of the CIA station, they yelled out, “Long live America!”
Untung later said that when he became aware that Suharto and the CIA were planning a coup on October 5, 1965 – Indonesian Armed Forces Day – forces loyal to him and Sukarno moved first. Jones described this as “typical Communist propaganda.” Suharto moved against Sukarno on October 1. Jones iterated that “there was not an iota of truth . . . in the accusation that the CIA was working against Sukarno.” History has proven otherwise. Jones accused the Communists of taking advantage of Sukarno’s failing health to beat out the other candidates to succeed him. The goal, according to Jones, was to have PKI boss D.N. Aidit succeed Sukarno. Sukarno did not die until 1970, while under house arrest.
A CIA paper, formerly classified Secret and undated, states “Sukarno would like to return to the status quo ante-coup. He has refused to condemn the PKI or the 30th September Movement [of Lt. Col. Untung]; instead, he calls for unity of Indonesia and asks that no vengeance be taken by one group against the other. But, he has not succeeded in forcing the Army to abandon its anti-PKI activities and, on the other hand, he has bowed to their demand by appointing its single candidate General Suharto as head of the Army.” Suharto and Barry Obama Soetoro’s step-father Lolo Soetoro would ignore Sukarno’s call for no vengeance, as hundreds of thousands of Indonesians would soon discover.
The mass murder by Suharto of Indonesian Chinese is seen in the CIA paper’s description of the Baperki Party: “the leftist Baperki Party, with its major strength in rural areas, is largely Chinese-Indonesian in membership.” A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, dated October 6, 1966 and formerly classified Secret, shows the extent of the CIA’s monitoring of the anti-Sukarno coup from various CIA agents assigned as liaisons to Suharto’s army units surrounding the Presidential Palace in Bogor and at various diplomatic posts around the country, including the U.S. Consulate in Medan, which was keeping track of leftists in that Sumatran city and, which, in an October 2, 1965, Intelligence Memo, reported to the CIA that the “Soviet consul-general in Medan has a plane standing by that could be used for evacuation of Soviet citizens from Sumatra.” The October 6 memo also warns against allowing Untung from developing a following in Central Java.
A CIA formerly Secret “Weekly Summary Special Report” on Indonesia, dated August 11, 1967, and titled “The New Order in Indonesia,” reports that in 1966, Indonesia re-aligned its economy in order to receive International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance. The CIA reports its is happy with the new triumvirate ruling Indonesia in 1967: Suharto, Foreign Minister Adam Malik, and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, who served as minister for economics and finance. The report also rejoices in the outlawing of the PKI, but states it “retains a significant following in East and Central Java,” where Ann Dunham Soetoro would largely concentrate her later efforts on behalf of USAID, the World Bank, and the Ford Foundation, all front activities for the CIA to “win the hearts and minds” of the Javanese farmers and artisans.
A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, formerly Secret and dated July 23, 1966, clearly sees the Muslim Nahdatul Ulama party {NU), the largest party in Indonesia and Muslim, as a natural ally of the United States and the Suharto regime. The report states that helped Suharto put down the Communists in the post-coup time frame, especially where the NU was strongest: East Java, where Obama’s mother would concentrate her activities, and North Sumatra and parts of Borneo. An April 29, 1966, formerly Secret CIA Intelligence Memorandum on the PKI states: “Moslem extremists in many instances outdid the army in hunting down and murdering members of the party [PKI] and its front groups.”
Dunham and Barry Soetoro in Jakarta and USAID front activities
Dunham dropped out of the University of Hawaii in 1960 while pregnant with Barack Obama. Barack Obama Sr. left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard. Dunham and Obama divorced in 1964. In the fall of 1961, Dunham enrolled at the University of Washington while caring for her infant son. Dunham was re-enrolled at the University of Hawaii from 1963 to 1966. Lolo Soetoro, who Dunham married in March 1965, departed Hawaii for Indonesia on July 20, 1965, some three months prior to the CIA’s coup against Sukarno. Soetoro, who served Suharto as an Army colonel, was clearly called back from the CIA-connected East-West Center to assist in the coup against Sukarno, one that would eventually cost the lives of some one million Indonesian citizens. It is a history that President Obama would like the press to ignore, which it certainly did during the 2008 primary and general election.
In 1967, after arriving in Indonesia with Obama, Jr., Dunham began teaching English at the American embassy in Jakarta, which also housed one of the largest CIA stations in Asia and had significant satellite stations in Surabaya in eastern Java and Medan on Sumatra. Jones left as East-West Center chancellor in 1968.
In fact, Obama’s mother was teaching English for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was a major cover for CIA activities in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia, especially in Laos, South Vietnam, and Thailand. The USAID program was known as Lembaga Pendidikan Pembinaan Manajemen. Obama’s mother, painted as a free spirit and a “sixties child” by President Obama and people who claimed they knew her in Hawaii and Indonesia, had a curriculum vitae in Indonesia that contradicts the perception that Ann Dunham Soetoro was a “hippy.”
Dunham Soetoro’s Russian language training at the University of Hawaii may have been useful to the CIA in Indonesia. An August 2, 1966, formerly Secret memorandum from the National Security Council’s Executive Secretary Bromley Smith states that, in addition to Japan, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the Suharto coup was welcomed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies because its created a non-aligned Indonesia that “represents an Asian counterweight to Communist China.” Records indicate that a number of CIA agents posted in Jakarta before and after the 1965 coup were, like Dunham Soetoro, conversant in Russian.
Dunham Soetoro worked for the elitist Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Bank Rakyat (the majority government-owned People’s Bank of Indonesia), and the CIA-linked USAID while she lived in Indonesia and later, Pakistan.
USAID was involved in a number of CIA covert operations in Southeast Asia. The February 9, 1971, Washington Star reported that USAID officials in Laos were aware that rice supplied to the Laotian Army by USAID was being re-sold to North Vietnamese army divisions in the country. The report stated that the U.S. tolerated the USAID rice sales to the North Vietnamese since the Laotian Army units that sold the rice found themselves protected from Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese attack. USAID and the CIA also used the supply of rice to force Laotian Meo tribesmen to support the United States in the war against the Communists. USAID funds programmed for civilians injured in the war in Laos and public health care were actually diverted for military purposes.
In 1971, the USAID-funded Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale was accused of being a CIA front. USAID-funded projects through the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) — comprising the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan State — were accused of being CIA front projects, including those for “agricultural education” in Indonesia, as well as other “projects” in Afghanistan, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The charge was made in 1971, the same year that Ann Dunham was working for USAID in the country.
In a July 10, 1971, New York Times report, USAID and the CIA were accused of “losing” $1.7 billion appropriated for the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program in South Vietnam. CORDS was part of the CIA’s Operation Phoenix program, which involved CIA assassination and torture of South Vietnamese village elders and Buddhist clerics. USAID money was also directed to the CIA’s proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, Air America. In Thailand, USAID funds for the Accelerated Rural Development Program in Thailand were actually masking a CIA anti-Communist counter-insurgency operation. USAID funds programmed for public works projects in East Pakistan in 1971 were used for East Pakistan’s military fortifications on its border with India, in the months before the outbreak of war with India, in contravention of U.S. law that prohibited USAID money for military purposes.
In 1972, USAID administrator Dr. John Hannah admitted to Metromedia News that USAID was being used as a cover for CIA covert operations in Laos. Hannah only admitted to Laos as a USAID cover for the CIA. However, it was also reported that USAID was being used by the CIA in Indonesia, Philippines, South Vietnam, Thailand, and South Korea. USAID projects in Southeast Asia had to be approved by the Southeast Asian Development Advisory Group (SEADAG), an Asia Society group that was, in fact, answerable to the CIA.
The U.S. Food for Peace program, jointly administered by USAID and the Department of Agriculture, was found in 1972 to be used for military purposes in Cambodia, South Korea, Turkey, South Vietnam, Spain, Taiwan, and Greece. In 1972, USAID funneled aid money only to the southern part of North Yemen, in order to aid North Yemeni forces against the government of South Yemen, then ruled by a socialist government opposed to U.S. hegemony in the region.
One of the entities affiliated with the USAID work in Indonesia was the Asia Foundation, a 1950s creation formed with the help of the CIA to oppose the expansion of communism in Asia. The East-West Center guest house in Hawaii was funded by the Asia Foundation. The guest house is also where Barack Obama Sr. first stayed after his airlift from Kenya to Hawaii, arranged by the one of the CIA’s major agents of influence in Africa, Mboya.
Dunham would also travel to Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Thailand working on micro-financing projects. In 1965, Barack Obama Sr. returned to Kenya from Harvard, with another American wife. The senior Obama linked up with his old friend and the CIA’s “golden boy” Mboya and other fellow Luo politicians. The CIA station chief in Nairobi from 1964 to 1967 was Philip Cherry. In 1975, Cherry was the CIA station chief in Dacca, Bangladesh. Cherry was linked by the then-U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, Eugene Booster, to the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of his family.
The hit on “Sheikh Mujib” and his family was reportedly ordered by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Bangladesh was also on the micro- and macro-financing travel itinerary of CIA-linked Ann Dunham.
CIA banking and Hawaii
Meanwhile, Dunham Soetoro’s mother, Madelyn Dunham, who raised young Obama when he returned to Hawaii in 1971 while his mother stayed in Indonesia, was the first female vice president at the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu. Various CIA front entities used the bank. Madelyn Dunham handled escrow accounts used to make CIA payments to U.S.-supported Asian dictators like Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, South Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu, and President Suharto in Indonesia. In effect, the bank was engaged in money laundering for the CIA to covertly prop up its favored leaders in the Asia-Pacific region.
One of the CIA’s major money laundering fronts in Honolulu was the firm of Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong (BBRDW). After the CIA allowed the firm to collapse in 1983 amid charges that BBRDW was merely a Ponzi scheme, Senator Daniel Inouye of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said the CIA’s role in the firm “wasn’t significant.” It would later be revealed that Inouye, who was one of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’s best friends in the Senate, was lying. In fact, BBRDW was involved heavily in funding covert CIA programs throughout Asia, including economic espionage against Japan, providing arms for Afghan mujaheddin guerrillas in their war against the Soviets and covertly supplying weapons to Taiwan. One of BBRDW’s principals was John C. “Jack” Kindschi, who, before he retired in 1981, was the CIA station chief in Honolulu. BBRDW’s chairman Ron Rewald had a counterfeit college degree certificate provided for the wall of his office by the CIA’s forgery experts and his name was inserted in university records as an alumnus.
A false history for BBRDW was concocted by the CIA claiming the firm had operated in Hawaii since it was a territory. President Obama is currently plagued by allegations that he has fake college and university transcripts, a phony social security number issued in Connecticut, and other padded resume items. Did Hawaii’s fake BBRDW documents portend today’s questions about Obama’s past?
BBRDW conducted its business in the heart of Honolulu’s business district, where the Bank of Hawaii was located and where Obama grandmother Madelyn Dunham ran the escrow accounts. The bank would handle much of BBRDW’s covert financial transactions.
Obama/Soetoro and the “years of living dangerously” in Jakarta
It is clear that Dunham Soetoro and her Indonesian husband, President Obama’s step-father, were closely involved in the CIA’s operations to steer Indonesia away from the Sino-Soviet orbit during the “years of living dangerously” after the overthrow of Sukarno. WMR has discovered that some of the CIA’s top case officers were assigned to various official and non-official cover assignments in Indonesia during this time frame, including under the cover of USAID, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA).
One of the closest CIA contacts for Suharto was former CIA Jakarta embassy officer Kent B. Crane. Crane was so close to Suharto after “retiring” from the CIA, he was reportedly one of the only “private” businessmen given an Indonesian diplomatic passport by Suharto’s government. Crane’s company, the Crane Group, was involved in supplying small arms to the military forces of the United States, Indonesia, and other nations. A foreign policy adviser to Vice President Spiro Agnew, Crane was later nominated as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia by President Ronald Reagan but the nomination was dead-on-arrival because of Crane’s dubious links to Suharto. The ambassadorship would instead go to John Holdridge, a close colleague of Kissinger. Holdridge was succeeded in Jakarta by Paul Wolfowitz.
Suharto’s cronies, who included Mochtar and James Riady of the Lippo Group, would later stand accused of funneling over $1 million of illegal foreign contributions to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
President Obama has twice postponed official state visits to Indonesia, perhaps fearful of the attention such a trip would bring to the CIA connections of his mother and Indonesian step-father.
In the 1970s and 80s, Dunham was active in micro-loan projects for the Ford Foundation, the CIA-linked East-West Center, and USAID in Indonesia. One of the individuals assigned to the U.S. embassy and helped barricade the compound during a violent anti-U.S. student demonstration during the 1965 Suharto coup against Sukarno was Dr. Gordon Donald, Jr. Assigned to the embassy’s Economic Section, Donald was responsible for USAID micro-financing for Indonesian farmers, the same project that Dunham Soetoro would work on for USAID in the 1970s, after her USAID job of teaching English in Indonesia. In a 1968 book, “Who’s Who in the CIA,” published in West Berlin, Donald is identified as a CIA officer who was also assigned to Lahore, Pakistan, where Dunham would eventually live for five years in the Hilton International Hotel while working on microfinancing for the Asian Development Bank.
Another “Who’s Who in the CIA” Jakarta alumnus is Robert F. Grealy, who later became the director for international relations for the Asia-Pacific for J P Morgan Chase and a director for the American-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce. J P Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon is being mentioned as a potential replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose father, Peter Geithner, was the Ford Foundation’s Asia grant-selector who funneled the money to Ann Dunham’s Indonesian projects.
CIA Black Projects and Hawaii
While in Pakistan, Dunham’s son Barack visited her in 1980 and 1981. Obama visited Karachi, Lahore, and Hyderabad, India during his south Asia visits. It was during the time period that the CIA was beefing up its anti-Soviet operations in Afghanistan from Pakistan.
A January 31, 1958, heavily-redacted formerly Secret NOFORN [no foreign dissemination] memorandum for CIA Director Allen Dulles from the Deputy Assistant Director of the CIA for Research and Reports [name redacted] reports on a fact-finding mission to the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East from November 17 through December 21, 1957.
The CIA Office of Research and Reports (ORR) chief reports a meeting with the staff of retired Army General Jesmond Balmer, a senior CIA official in Hawaii, about requests by the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) for “a number of detailed, time-consuming research studies.” The ORR chief then reports about a CIA “survey of students at the University of Hawaii who have both Chinese language and research ability.” The ORR chief also reports that at a South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) Counter Subversion Seminar at Baguio, Philippines held from November 26-29, 1957, the Economic Subcommittee discussed an “economic development fund” to combat “Sino-Soviet Bloc subversive activities in the area and a consideration of possible counter-measures which might be employed.”
The Thailand and Philippines delegations were pushing hard for U.S. funding for an economic development fund, which may have provided the impetus for later USAID projects in the region, including those with which Peter Geithner and Obama’s mother were intimately involved.
Although CIA geo-political covert operations at the University of Hawaii are well-documented, the agency’s darker side of research and MK-UKTRA type operations has not generally been associated with the University of Hawaii.
A series of formerly Confidential CIA memoranda, dated May 15, 1972, points to the involvement of both the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the CIA, and the University of Hawaii in the CIA’s behavioral science program. The memos are signed by then-Deputy Director of the CIA Bronson Tweedy, the chief of the Intelligence Community’s Program Review Group (PRG) [name redacted], and CIA Director Richard Helms. The subject of the memos is “ARPA Supported Research Relating to Intelligence Product,” The memo from the PRG chief discusses a conference held on May 11, 1972, attended by Lt. Col. Austin Kibler, ARPA’s Director of Behavioral Research. Kibler was the chief for ARPA research into behavior modification and remote viewing. Others mentioned in the PRG chief’s memo include CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence Edward Proctor, the CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology Carl Duckett, and Director of the Office of National Estimates John Huizenga.
In 1973, after CIA Director James Schlesinger ordered a review of all CIA programs, the CIA developed a set of documents on various CIA programs collectively called the “Family Jewels.” Most of these documents were released in 2007 but it was also revealed that Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA’s director of MKULTRA, the agency’s behavior modification, brainwashing, and drug testing component, had been ordered by Helms, before he resigned as CIA director, to be destroyed. Duckett, in one memo from Ben Evans of the CIA to CIA Director William Colby, dated May 8, 1973, conveys that he “thinks the Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this program,” meaning Gottlieb’s drug testing program under MKULKTRA.
Senior Gerald Ford administration officials, including Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, ensured that after the production of the “Family Jewels” documents, no CIA revelations were made about CIA psychological behavior-altering programs, including MKULTRA and Project ARTICHOKE.
The May 15, 1972, set of memos appears to be related to the CIA’s initial research, code named SCANATE, in 1972 into psychic warfare, including the use of psychics for purposes of remote viewing espionage and mind control. The memo discussed Kibler from ARPA and “his contractor,” which was later discovered to be Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
In a memo from CIA Director Helms to, among others, Duckett, Huizenga, Proctor, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which later inherited reote viewing from the CIA under the code name GRILL FLAME, Helms insists that ARPA had been supporting research into behavioral science and its potential for intelligence production ”for a number of years” at “M.I.T., Yale, the University of Michigan, U.C.L.A., and University of Hawaii and other institutions as well as in corporate research facilities.”
The role of the University of Hawaii in CIA psych-war operations continues to this day. The chief of research for DIA’s Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC) Behavioral Sciences Program, Dr. Susan Brandon, who was reportedly involved in a covert program run by the American Psychological Association (APA), Rand Corporation, and the CIA to employ “enhanced interrogation” techniques, including sleep and sensory deprivation, intense pain, and extreme isolation on prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and other “black prisons,” received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Hawaii. Brandon also served as assistant director of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Sciences for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the George W. Bush White House.
The CIA’s close connections to the University of Hawaii continued to the late 1970s, when the former President of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, Harlan Cleveland, was a special invited speaker at CIA headquarters on May 10, 1977. Cleveland served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965 and Lyndon Johnson’s ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969 before taking up his position at the University of Hawaii.
A CIA Director of Training memo dated May 21, 1971, reports on the active recruitment of a U.S. Marine officer who was entering graduate school at the University of Hawaii.
The Family of Obama and the CIA
There are volumes of written material on the CIA backgrounds of George H. W. Bush and CIA-related activities by his father and children, including former President George W. Bush. Barack Obama, on the other hand, cleverly masked his own CIA connections as well as those of his mother, father, step-father, and grandmother (there is very little known about Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who was supposedly in the furniture business in Hawaii after serving in Europe during World War II). Presidents and vice presidents do not require security background checks, unlike other members of the federal government, to hold office. That job is left up to the press. In 2008, the press failed miserably in its duty to vet the man who would win the White House. With the ties of Obama’s parents to the University of Hawaii and its links to MKULTRA and ARTICHOKE, a nagging question remains: Is Barack Obama a real-life “Manchurian Candidate?” MORE @www.newsbuster.com/pages/content/bombshell-barack-obama-outed-as-cia-creation.html#.TyDHR9beqk9.facebook

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